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I'm piecing together some things I've seen in documentaries and read all over the place over the last couple decades (so, unfortunately no sources):

1) Sense of smell plays a huge part in selecting genetically suitable mates. I've read that if you hit it off with someone like whoa and like damn, and then at the first kiss (the first time you get a really good whiff of them through all the scented products and our modern hygiene) and suddenly you're not feeling it anymore, it's entirely possible you are smelling that they're unsuitable and your hardwiring is telling you so.

2) When pregnant (and nursing), that is, when vulnerable, women's preference for smells shifts from preferring men who are genetically compatible to men who match the scents of her closest relatives. I suppose because, other than her mate, these are the men who have a vested genetic interest in helping and protecting her?

3) One marriage counsellor interviewed for an article said (paraphrasing), "one of the most common complaints women in my office seem to have is, 'I can't stand the way he smells.'"

4) Hormonal birth control mimics pregnancy.

Is it possible, or likely, that because of hormonal birth control, which most women are taking when dating and after marriage but before deciding to have children, that women have been unwittingly choosing long-term partners (and fathers for their children) who are bad genetic matches? That hormonal birth control is not just shifting the preferences of women from more masculine partners to less, but that it is leading them to choose partners who are genetically similar to them--as similar as brothers, cousins, fathers?

If this is the case, is it possible, or even likely, that this trend may be partly responsible for recent increases in several disorders that have a heritable component? Things like allergies, asthma, autism, ADHD, etc?

In other words, is it possible that we are seriously fucking things up for ourselves, gene pool-wise?

Actually, I think Nathanson and Young's presentation was more of a debacle, given that at Farrell's, the mob worked itself up into a tizzy prior to the presentation, and were removed, merely delaying it, while N&Y's talk was disrupted for 20 minutes by masked protesters banging truncheons and shouting into blowhorns right outside the lecture room, THEN the fire alarm was pulled, THEN masked protesters held the fire doors shut during the evacuation, THEN feminist protesters started screaming at people out on the street while the firefighters dealt with the building, THEN the lecture was able to continue.

Haha, I thought I was the only woman who did that (though I'm more prone to smelling my shoulder after it's been wedged into his armpit). Feeling a little less weird now. Not a LOT less weird, mind you, because huffing someone's pit-stank is still pretty weird. :P

Official status usually means funding and support from the university, discounts on event venues, all kinds of benefits.

The gay students weren't interesting in joining the group, they just wanted to make life difficult for them and deny them the perks that come with official status.

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